Word: throttlebottoms
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...Viet Nam), Goldwaterite, and finally, an improbable shepherd of nearly all the major civil rights legislation of the '60s. Toward the end of his life-he died in 1969-it began to seem that Dirksen's most interesting achievement was himself: a rumpled travesty of Throttlebottom, Pekin, Ill., Polonius wreathed in consciously self-mocking fustian, a man at once shamelessly sentimental and uncommonly shrewd...
Died. Victor Moore, 86, chubby, puckish actor, whose best-remembered role was Alexander Throttlebottom, the quavering-voiced ineffectual U.S. Vice President in George Gershwin's 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing; of a heart attack; in East Islip...
...formation; The Man Who Came to Dinner portrayed a porcupine in the shape of a man. un mistakably Woollcott with more than a few quills of Kaufman; and Of Thee I, Sing, a spoof that could teach a few mocking lessons to the Mort Sahl generation created the unforgettable Throttlebottom as well as the national committeeman who sold Rhode Island ("Nobody missed...
Norm Patz, Dave Hayes, and Peter Edelman are properly amateur actors, but play respectively the French ambassador, Chief Justice, and Alexander Throttlebottom (the vice president, in case you haven't heard) in a more than amateur manner. Hayes has a good voice, Patz a sure sense of timing, and Edelman a deep insight into the complexities of the character he portrays...
...switch on Of Thee I Sing (1931), in which John P. Wintergreen is elected President on an all-out love platform, and later saved from impeachment by the First Lady's announcement that she is going to have a baby. As Vice President Throttlebottom tells the Senators: "Gentlemen, this country has never yet impeached an expectant father...